Knowledge societies --in a nutshell
Subtitle: information technology for sustainable development
By: Andreas Crede  & Robin Mansell for the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development and the International Development Research Centre
Contributors: Mansell, Robin E.; International Development Research Centre (Canada); United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development
Publisher: The Centre
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 49
ISBN-13: 9781552500590; 9781280717437
Subjects: De veloppement durable; Sustainable development; Innovations; Technologie de l'information; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Economic Policy; Public Policy; Technological innovations; Information technology
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: CONTENTS; title: FOREWORD; title: INTRODUCTION; title: The key opportunities; title: CHAPTER 1 IDENTIFYING NEW ICT OPPORTUNITIES; title: New types of learning and education; title: A wired civil society; title: New forms of commerce; title: Opportunities for trade; title: Potential uses of ICTs; title: ICTs and employment; title: New technical infrastructures; title: CHAPTER 2 BUILDING THE CAPABILITIES; title: Illiteracy44; skills44; and knowledge45;based development; title: New social capabilities; title: Tacit knowledge and the learning economy; title: Acquiring new skills; title: Lifelong learning; title: Tools for building innovative knowledge societies; title: CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE; title: The Missing Link revisited; title: Communication45;network development; title: Expansion of the Internet; title: Benefits of network expansion; title: ICT production capacity; title: Building new coalitions of resources; title: CHAPTER 4 ADDRESSING KEY GOVERNANCE ISSUES; title: International institutions governing ICTs; title: Opening up but keeping control; title: Governing trade in services and equipment; title: Protecting intellectual property; title: Privacy and information security; title: Governance and the networld economy; title: CHAPTER 5 FORMULATING ICT STRATEGIES; title: Technology choices and capacity45;building; title: Strategies for market liberalization; title: Promoting improved access; title: Harnessing ICTs for development; title: Integrating ICT strategies; title: Guidelines for ICT strategies; title: CHAPTER 6 ICTs FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; title: APPENDIX I46; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; title: ABOUT THE AUTHORS; title: ABOUT THE INSTITUTIONS; title: ABOUT THE PUBLISHER; title: Last Page